The Deadbolt

Although Twilight and New Moon have reignited interest in vampires, the next vampire project on the cinematic horizon is the blood sucking actioner, Daybreakers, starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill, which hits theaters January 8, 2010. As a lead up to Daybreakers, Lionsgate has a new Daybreakers PSA TV spot, which gives vampire fans an alternative spin on the conventional public service announcement with a Daybreakers look at the dwindling resources within the Daybreakers storyline, namely human blood.

For those about to rock, Pirate Radio salutes you on November 13 when the new Focus Features music based film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh hits theaters. Ahead of the Richard Curtis directed Pirate Radio release, TheDeadbolt has dialed in a few Pirate Radio clips, which tell the story of eight rogue DJs in the 1960s who created their own pirate radio station aboard a ship in the international waters of the North Atlantic in an effort to stick it to the British government. With Pirate Radio and Philip Seymour Hoffman about to rock theaters with Love Actually director Richard Curtis behind the lens, sit back crank up the tunes and enjoy the sounds of the '60s with The Count, Quentin, Gavin, Midnight Mark, Doctor Dave and Young Carl as we flash back to the days of Pirate Radio on the high seas.

Harvey Keitel had a lot to do with making the original Bad Lieutenant a cult favorite back in 1992 and now director Werner Herzog and First Look Studios have resurrected Bad Lieutenant into New Orleans with Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, and Eva Mendes. The original 1992 Bad Lieutenant was a hardcore descent into dark corners of a bad cop. 17 years later, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans looks to be as harsh and in your face as Nicolas Cage steps into the role of a crazy rogue detective hell bent on taking down the bad guys and scoring drugs.

Included in the special features for Up is an unseen extra called "Dug's Special Mission", which, much like "Mater and the Ghostlight" on the Cars DVD, fills in story gaps between the events of the film. "Dug's Special Mission" showcases the events leading up to the first meeting between Carl, Russell, and Dug the dog from Up. To get the scoop on Up and the "Dug's Special Mission" feature, we joined a virtual conference call with Pixar's Head of Story, Ronnie Del Carmen, to learn more about the Blu-ray bonus, the challenges of boiling an Up story down to five minutes, and how the Up team tackled the chemistry between Carl and Russell, voiced by Ed Asner and Jordan Nagai.

One of the Pixar heavyweights, Docter has earned a reputation as a quality filmmaker and innovator in the new generation of animated movies to come out of the Disney/Pixar era. With Up about to find its way to DVD and Blu-ray on November 10 after a $500 million worldwide take at the box-office, director Pete Docter opens up about his time at Pixar, the origins of Up, the challenges of bringing Up to animated life in 3D, and where Docter would go if he could fly anywhere in the world like Up characters Carl and Russell, voiced by Ed Asner and Jordan Nagai.

What has all time Major League hitting champ, Pete Rose, been doing these days? As fans of Sacha Baron Cohen and Bruno get ready for Bruno to hit the runways of DVD and Blu-ray on November 17, we were sent a hilarious Bruno clip from the Blu-ray Special features of Bruno sitting down for a chat with baseball great Pete Rose. And when we say "sitting", it's not like when Pete Rose used to sit in the dugout for The Big Red Machine. The Bruno - Pete Rose clip wasn't seen in theaters and is only available on the DVD and Blu-ray, which also features an hour of other scenes not included in the theatrical Bruno release.

After a highly anticipated build up to theaters, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is now wide on store shelves as of November 3 on both DVD and Blu-ray. As a bonus, G.I. Joe fans that grab the 2 Disc Edition of Rise of the Cobra get a cool augmented reality G.I. Joe special feature. Much in the same way that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen featured a cool holographic extra embedded in the packaging, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra pushes the home entertainment medium into augmented reality with a "Combat Experience" where G.I. Joe and Cobra characters throw down in hand-to-hand Cobra combat on your monitor.

When it comes to movies and features, there's nothing better than reading something of value rather than the jump on bandwagon for the sake of cashing in type Top 10 pieces we see around the web. So when our friends at Reelz Channel shot us a link to their latest feature, Back from the Dead: Movie Classics that Began as Box-Office Bombs, that showcases a number of movies that bombed in theaters only to become fan favorites, we were glad to go behind the scenes. To tell you the dead movie truth, quite a few on the Back from the Dead list will surprise some movie lovers.

With the Stargate franchise still living on long after the original Stargate movie, Erick Avari can now be seen in the new Stargate 15th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray, which hit stores on October 27. Although it's been 15 years since Erick Avari stepped onto the Stargate movie set, Avari still has fond memories of working on Stargate location so many years later. To celebrate the Blu-ray release of Stargate 15th Anniversary Edition, we went one-on-one with Erick Avari who filled us in on everything from the challenges of the Stargate desert and his favorite Stargate memory to translating his character to Stargate SG-1 and how he feels about the explosion of Indian filmmaking in North America.